Through Colombian lenses: Ethnographic and conventional analyses of maternal care and their associations with secure base behavior

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 508-518

  Posada, German ^a   Carbonell, Olga A ^b   Alzate, Gloria ^b   Plata, Sandra J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; REVIEW;

ADULT; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 3042667653     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.4.508     Document Type: Review

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